The 7 Keys to Prosperity

Santiago Ponciano

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Santiago Ponciano

Summary: We are adaptable, but we must not grow accustomed to circumstances that destroy us. To break free from them, we need to say “enough is enough,” change our mindset, set goals, and adopt an attitude focused on victory. Biblical prosperity is God’s favor upon our home, life, and endeavors; it does not depend merely on needs, but on a God-given vision that is aligned with the vision of the house and put into practice according to the principles of the kingdom. Crisis and opposition can propel us to new heights when we remain focused.

Three keys open this path. First, we must avoid ignorance and seek wisdom: accumulating knowledge or learning intelligently is not enough, for wisdom consists in correctly applying what we have learned. Second, we must obey promptly, generously, and willingly, because obedience opens the way for the miracle; when we release what can bless someone else, we stop withholding our own blessing. Third, we must take action: we must dare, make every effort, and be doers of the Word. True faith brings prayer and action together; we must “pray and row,” trusting God while transforming our surroundings.

We are adaptable beings. We learn to live in different circumstances and situations. Some time ago, I approached a man who was standing right at a traffic light on a main avenue in my country. I went up to him and said to myself, ‘If I look at him, I am sure I am standing before someone who is completely insane, what people commonly call a madman.’ I said, ‘There is nothing more to him than that.’ Nevertheless, I felt something, and it was that I had seen him on so many occasions that I wanted to find out whether I really was standing before an insane person. Although he had a stick in his hand and also had a look that suggested his intentions were not very good, I decided to roll down the car window and ask him a question. As I rolled down the window, I said to him, ‘How are you?’ And he told me, ‘Things are not good.’ So I said to him, ‘And what is wrong?’ And he said, ‘There is nothing, that’s how it is. There is nothing.’ I placed something in his hand to help him with his situation, and then I said, ‘The guy isn’t crazy. There is nothing wrong with him.’ I said, ‘No, no, he is right. What happens is that we are adaptable beings.’ One day we are in need and pick up the first can we find in the street, that little soda can, to sell it, and perhaps we simply remain in that position.

But I will tell you more: I met another man who made a living hauling away garbage with a wheelbarrow. People learned to see him that way, to see him as garbage too, because we are adaptable. We adapt, and he began hauling away garbage and more garbage. But besides that, since hauling away garbage is such an undignified job, he accompanied it with a small bottle of rum, alcohol, and that was his food; he drank and hauled away garbage, drank rum, alcohol, liquor, and hauled away garbage. And in this way he kept losing weight and losing the ability to walk, and people looked down on him, shoved him and hurt him. And so I approached him too.

There are people who need someone to approach them, but society keeps us moving so quickly, and those who move quickly never see the traffic signs along the road. Well, let me tell you that I approached him and spoke with him, and I realized that people treated him as though he were insane too, but he was not. He had been a police officer. What happened was that he made bad decisions, and those bad decisions brought him to that place, and he was hauling away garbage. Nobody loved him. He said that later, whenever he saw me, he was afraid of me because he knew I was going to correct him. So I approached him, asked him about his family, and he told me that he had children. Once he was married, once he had a family, once a little boy was born to him, and a little girl was born to him, and he was filled with hopes and dreams for them. But everything had been lost; there was nothing. All that remained was an empty world, without anyone who would look at him and care about him. We are adaptable beings.

We adapt to things, to circumstances and to situations. One day Israel said, ‘Enough is enough,’ and that day its freedom began. And one day a young man named David looked at a giant and told him, ‘Today I will kill you,’ and he killed him. I believe that we can get out of the situation we are in, we can break through the situation surrounding us, and we can devote ourselves to reaching the goals we have in our lives. Whoever lives without goals lives without a destination. Whoever does not have clear goals has no port to reach.

So this morning I tell you the following: let us rise up and assume the position of command. Perhaps our humility might lead us at some point to think that if we stick our necks out and hold our heads high, we are being very proud, but I am going to tell you something: Satan needs clear demonstrations that those of us who have been placed in positions of authority are going to assume them fully. We are not going to adapt to the situation in which Satan wants to place his people. We are adaptable.

Someone who works in a place where animals are slaughtered may, on the first day he comes to work there, smell such a tremendous stench, such a foul odor, that he wants to leave the place. But I am going to tell you something: once you have been in that place for two hours, you will learn to live with the foul odors, and that will be your home; there you will eat, there you will live, there you will smile. We are adaptable beings.

I am going to say something to Satan right now, wherever he may be, because I know this is not his place. We are ready to go out, confront you and show that we can get out of this situation and place ourselves in a position of victory. If you have some applause that you are not going to use, you can give it now. Ah, blessed is the Lord. You can give it now, you can give it now; if you are not going to use it, give it.

Oh, blessed is the Lord. I want you to stand up and receive the word I am going to give you this morning. We are adaptable beings, but right now we are going to say, ‘Enough is enough.’

This church has a name that fascinates me: Lion of Judah. It specifies which lion it is, and that is good. But do you know why Lion of Judah? Because, as I speak about what I am speaking about, I think of the lion. The lion is not the biggest. He is not the biggest in either the jungle or the savanna; nor is he the strongest, nor the fastest, nor the one with the best eyesight, nor the one who can keep running the longest without getting tired. Nevertheless, he is the king.

Praise Him now. Why don’t you give Him a round of applause? He is the king. Do you know what I am telling you at this hour? Your issue is not strength or new things; it is focus and attitude. Do you know what the elephant, the largest animal, does when it sees the lion? Do you know what it says? ‘Behold the king.’ And do you know what the lion says when it sees the elephant? ‘That is a lot of food.’ Give Him a round of applause. It is a matter of attitude.

Can you understand what I am telling you this morning? Focus, attitude. And today I want to make things a little uncomfortable; since I am leaving tomorrow, I can make you a little uncomfortable. Well, let me tell you the following: I am going to tell you something else about the lion, and then I will focus on something I have there to share with you.

But this is so that we may begin adopting the right attitude to achieve what we want. Now look, I am going to tell you something about that lion. Proverbs 30:30 says that the lion never turns back. The lion does not back down. What I am telling you is that the lion goes along his way and suddenly gets into a fight and loses it. He lost the fight, but do you know what he does? He continues on his way. And the one who fought him looks at him and says, ‘Lion, but you lost; turn back.’ And he tells him, ‘I do not lose; I learn. A little farther down the road, I will kill you.’

Praise Him, for He lives. ‘I will kill you.’ It is a matter of attitude. Are you beginning to understand what I am telling you? It is a matter of attitude. It is a matter of wanting to achieve what I want. You, as a community, came to this country, but you needed to change your attitude and focus on those things you want, and that focus brought you this far.

But I am going to tell you something: do you feel comfortable here? This is not the end of the road; it is only beginning. You are yet to see the great things God has in store. What is coming is greater than what has happened, and you are yet to experience God’s good times. Can you believe it? Can you understand it? Ah, blessed is the Lord. Hallelujah!

So now I am going to share this word with you. I have this book, small but very meaningful. When people spoke of crisis in the world, I took it and wrote down the things that are here. When people spoke about the great crisis we were going to go through, which many people understood to be the end of the world—‘We are about to enter a great crisis,’ and someone said, ‘like the 1930s, the greatest of recessions, and we are going to have many Black Mondays’—many people said, ‘It is the end of my finances; it is the end of what I want.’

I am going to tell you something: the word crisis should not intimidate people who are focused on God, for one simple reason: crisis as such is relative and means little to me. Do you know why it means little? Because there are people who live in crisis in times of abundance. And there are people who live in abundance in times of crisis. It is all a matter of how you focus on life. I do not care what the economy says; I care about what Jehovah said. Do you know what Jehovah said at this time? That there will be a temple here with room for 2,000 people, that people will come from everywhere and enter this place, and that God is going to bless this house; He is going to bless [inaudible], which does not merely motivate us but thrills us.

Let my emotions run free. Hallelujah! Blessed is the Lord. Blessed is the Lord. Well, I am going to tell you something. I was talking with a friend, a pastor in Guatemala, and he told me the following: he was a pilot and flew small airplanes. Then he said to me, ‘Do you know something? I like flying small airplanes, but to fly them I have to seek out a headwind so that the airplane will rise.’ Then I became thoughtful and said, ‘The airplane needs a headwind in order to rise?’ He said, ‘Yes.’ I told him, ‘Now I understand. When the winds blow against your life, prepare for the heights.’

Praise Him, for He lives. Blessed is the Lord. Prepare for the heights. Prepare for new levels. Prepare to attain new positions in God. A vision will be effective if, first, we have the right moment; second, the right people; and third, the right environment. For my mission to be effective, then, I must have the right moment, environment and people.

God is looking for people who have a vision, not needs. Some people are very interested in having God heal their illness. Nevertheless, not everyone who is sick qualifies for a miracle, nor does everyone experiencing a crisis qualify for a financial miracle. The kingdom is founded on principles, not needs. And I tell you this because God is looking for a vision, because God will finance only people’s visions, not people’s needs.

I learned something in the Dominican Republic: the Lord was looking for a man with a vision, not men with needs. When I arrived with my family to work in the eastern area and settled in that place, I realized that God was pursuing a vision, because the word provision, which is what we all want—‘Oh God, give me provision’—remember that the word provision is a compound word: pro-vision. There is a vision He is looking at, there is a vision He will attend to, and there is a vision He will supply.

So I came, stood before this material, and here I bring you the seven keys to prosperity. The word prosperity does not sit comfortably in some minds or in some churches. Nevertheless, the word prosperity is just as biblical as the word salvation. The problem is how I receive it. Every concept initially mentioned here will appear closed; it will be closed, and it must be opened.

If I say ‘God’ here, I am not saying anything. I must make it clear whether I am speaking about the God of the Jews, of the Muslims or of the Hindus. So the concept of God as such is very closed. The word prosperity also appears closed. I must open up the concept, but I am going to tell you something: prosperity outside the Bible is one thing, but prosperity in the Bible is the favor of God in my home, in my life and in everything I do.

I need the favor of God to reach my home. That is why prosperity is a good word, and ‘key’ is an even better word, because there are things I need a key to open. In the spiritual world, things are also opened with keys. I cannot go and open the spiritual world unless I have the right key to make things happen. So the spiritual world is a kingdom where things are achieved through principles.

There are principles, there are commands, and there are laws. And at this moment I only want to point out that principles are truths for me to apply, and those truths will generate the blessing I need. Do you want a miracle? Look and see which principles must be in place for a miracle to happen.

A person comes to where I live and says, ‘Pastor, I want you to pray for my finances,’ and I tell him, ‘And are you obeying the laws of the kingdom?’ Because there are people who want God to put their finances in order but never give a tithe. Praise Him.

Praise Him. There are principles, and they are the principles of the kingdom. That will open the spiritual world and cause things to happen so that I may be blessed. So I took this and brought it—do you know where?—to the Dominican Republic, and I began speaking to people who were in calamitous situations. I had to serve as a pastor in an area where people had nothing, where they arrived with nothing, where many people would come and, when they were leaving, say to me, ‘Pastor, could you give me a little money for the fare home?’ Do you know what? On one occasion I told them, ‘I have no problem pastoring people who are in a state of poverty. What I have a problem with is pastoring people who do not want to get out of their situation.’

When a person does not want to get out of his situation, that is a very difficult situation. Why? Because in order to leave the place where I am being destroyed, I have to change my mindset. That is why there is a Bible. Do you know why this kingdom has a Bible? Because we are ready to change the mind we have. Human beings are intelligent when they can learn, unlearn and learn again.

There are many people who have not unlearned in order to learn again; instead, they have remained still, listening to what is said and adding it to their way of being. That is why we have people who do not change their focus or their way of being. They hear things, and they hear them and hear them, but if you do not erase what you brought with you, you cannot retain what they are giving you. Do you understand me?

Look, casting out a demon is easy. You tell a demon, ‘Go.’ But changing a mindset can take a lifetime. So at this moment God is far more interested in changing our attitudes and ensuring that we become people who go forward, focused on what we want. Blessed is the Lord.

So one of the things I learned in that place is that God is at work, giving each one of us assignments. And you know what? When God gives us an assignment, we are invincible in the assignment God has given us. Do you know where no one will defeat you in life? In your assignment. But in which assignment? The one God gives you.

There is a vision God gives you; that is your assignment. God is trying to see where to place you so that you will be invincible. I cannot come to Boston without stopping by a university called Harvard, known throughout the world, and I saw the visionary John Harvard here. And you know what? People would come, and I was standing there too, and instead of taking my picture, they took John Harvard’s. And do you know what everyone would do? They lowered their cameras until I moved out of the way. They did not want a picture with me; they wanted a picture with John Harvard.

What happens is that when you arrive at your assignment, you are immortal, and a vision is carried—do you know where?—into the future, changing things and bringing about changes in the generations to come. God is going to raise up this people as a people who will change the character of this area. It does not matter what it has been; it does not matter what this area was like. If there is a right vision here, this area had better get ready, because it is going to change.

Ah, blessed be the Lord. Blessed be the Lord. That is the applause the people have. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Ah, blessed be the Lord. Forgive me for making you applaud so much, but I come from a land that applauds. Praise Him, for He lives.

So I am invincible in my assignment. Do you know why life is defeating you? Because you have not found the right vision, the right place. Now, I am going to tell you something: your vision will prosper only if you add it to the vision of the house.

I do not have a particular or different point of view; I have a vision joined to the vision of the house. Do you know why the Father glorified the Son? Because the Son always glorified the Father. And the Son always said, “I came to do the will of My Father.” There are many wills, but the only one that will cause me to come forth victorious is my Father’s. So from that I learned that it is not the place where you are born, but the place where you decide to die.

Jesus Christ was born in a manger, but He told hell, “I will not die in it; I will die as King and Savior of all mankind.” Decide the place; decide what is going to happen; decide your space. Decide what you are going to accomplish. Praise Him, for He lives. Blessed be the Lord.

Oh, glory. I am just going to give you key number one very quickly. And if I do not give you all the keys, [inaudible]. Key number one, which I want to leave with you: if you want to be a person of blessing, avoid ignorance. In the kingdom, ignorance does not count in your favor, but against you. When laws are enacted in nations, everyone is considered to know them. You cannot plead ignorance of a law, can you? In the spiritual world, you must have knowledge.

Well, brothers and sisters, I am going to tell you: avoid ignorance, because ignorance produces misery and darkness. Wherever there is misery, go and look, and you will find ignorance. Ignorance enslaves; ignorance takes things away from you and diminishes you. But I will tell you even more: if you look, you will realize that most people do not have a financial problem, that most people do not have a health problem, and that most people do not have marital problems. Generally speaking, people have a wisdom problem.

Sickness: they did not eat what they should have. Problems in the home: lack of wisdom. They do not understand the dynamics of life, the home, or the family. Lack of wisdom. And money—money also involves a lack of wisdom. Because if today we took all the money in the world and divided it into equal shares, giving every human being the same portion, the poor would become poor again and the rich would become rich again. It is a matter of focus; it is a matter of wisdom. It is a matter of understanding where we are going.

So a lack of wisdom is ready to harm my focus. A lack of wisdom is ready to destroy my finances, my marriage. Blessed be the Lord. A lack of wisdom. There are three words that seem similar but are not the same. The first is knowledge, the second is intelligence, and the third is wisdom.

Knowledge is the collection of information I have in my head. Intelligence is the ease or ability with which I get that knowledge into my head. But do you know what wisdom is? The grace, gift, talent, and capacity to apply knowledge properly. Many people know how things are, but they do not act on it. There are people who know that God has glory and blessing, that God helps, that God changes and transforms—but then there is the matter of properly applying that knowledge.

The devil wants to make us lose focus, but today God says, “I am giving you a new focus. I open the heavens and bless you above hell.” Blessed be the name of the Lord. You may applaud.

Help me preach. One of the things I understood was that the second key I needed, after intelligence, after avoiding ignorance, was obedience. Obedience. Do you know what a miracle is? A miracle is the result of an act of obedience. Miracles are the result of acts of obedience. When you obey, heaven is opening. When you can obey—when you can obey, brother—you are drawing nearer to the miracle. And then I understood something that made sense of what I once learned: if obedience is the key, then it is better to be first than to be the best.

People are striving to be the best, but God works with those who are first. If God were looking for the best, things would not be happening. He looks for the first: the first to arrive, the first to commit, the first to fulfill, the first to be willing, the first to surrender, the first to do it.

God works with those who are first. Here God is trying to find those who will be first. Not the best, because the best person acting according to his own will is the worst, while someone who is not the best but is in the will of God will change everything that needs to be changed. God takes humble, ordinary people and turns them into capable people, people who can do it. Blessed be the name of the Lord.

Brothers and sisters, at this moment I would like to tell you that when we fulfill our assignment, our names will be printed in letters of gold. There were 12 spies who went to verify what was happening in a land. There were 12 spies who were sent to see what was happening in a land, and all 12 spies entered the land and looked at it. And do you know what happened? Ten of them came back with an incorrect, unfavorable opinion, but there were two who brought back the right opinion. There were two who said, “That land is a land of blessing,” while 10 said, “It cannot be done there.”

If you go with the majority, you may be going to the wrong place, because many times those who uphold the will of God within a body are not the majority. Do not look at the majority; look at the will of God. God is not trying to put you in a place where you feel comfortable; God is trying to put you in the right place. And the right place is not the one where I am comfortable, but the one where He placed me.

Well then, brothers and sisters, I am going to tell you this: 12 spies—10 gave an incorrect recommendation, but there were two who told it as it was. There were two who spoke words of faith. God is looking for people who learn how to speak. God is looking for people who have His idiom, His language. God is looking for people who can say what He says and see what He sees. Hallelujah!

Well then, I am going to tell you the following. What if I ask you the names of the two who gave the right report? Well, I will give a book to whoever can tell me the names of the 10. You do not know them? That is because the name of people who disobey and do whatever they want will not even appear when people speak about those who were there.

Names are being written down here today. But it is the name of the person who is doing what is in the heart of Jehovah of Hosts. That deserves applause, no matter how you put it. Praise Him, for He lives. Praise Him, for He lives. You can praise Him; you can bless Him. Oh, blessed be the Lord. Oh, blessed be the Lord.

Well then, in the time I have left, I am going to give you… Hallelujah! When you take an envelope, you place more than money inside it; you place obedience inside it. That is why I like the envelope, the tithe, and the offering so much, because there are people who open heaven with their hand and close it with their pocket.

Hallelujah! Do you know what I learned through obedience? That when I release what belongs to someone else, God releases what belongs to me. You do not understand. Let me give you the details. I was in the church parking lot one day, and my phone rang. When I answered, it was some young sisters who lived in the Dominican Republic. They were not Dominican, but they lived in the Dominican Republic. Since they attended my church, I wanted to look after them because they were foreigners. I said, “We need to be careful with these young foreign women in my country; I have to look after them. The Bible commands me to look after them.” So I told them, “You are like daughters to me.” Well, do you know what they did? They called their mother and told her, “We found Dad.” But I learned that their father had been a pastor and had died.

So I told them, “I am your dad,” and that is why we get into trouble—because of our mouths. But that was not my problem; on the contrary, I felt very good. But then the following happened: one of them became ill, and when she got sick, they went to the hospital, to the clinic, to the right place where they needed to be at that moment. They examined her and said, “There is a very strange problem.” Then the doctor took out some paper—the prescriptions; they write prescriptions, the prescription pad, there it is—medicine. “Take this one, this one in the morning, then this one, and then take this one, which never fails.”

The young woman called me immediately. “Dad, we are at the clinic, and there is a problem here. My sister is very sick, and this…” And I said, “Oh, God.” “And so here we are; they gave us a prescription.” And I… “Blessed be God.” And then, when they finished, I hung up.

And do you know what came into my heart? “Are you finished? Are you already finished, Pastor?” I said, “No, I am not finished yet.” I called again. “Tell me, what is wrong? Do you need money?” “Of course, for the prescription.” I said, “No, but those are… What did they prescribe?” “Some pills.” So I said, “Ah, they are pills. All right, Dad is on his way. Wait for me at such-and-such pharmacy.” And when I arrived, I saw the young woman look and make a face… Then she looked, searched, entered this here and that there, and did the calculations: 10,300 Dominican pesos, which perhaps would not even seem like much here, but over there, brother—praise Him, for He lives. Give the Lord a round of applause.

A person’s entire monthly salary, and then some. Praise Him. Well then, let me tell you that I turned to the young woman and said, “Does she have to take all of it, or can we buy it in portions?” She said, “No, it is good for her to have it all because this cannot fail.” I said, “Well, all right then.” I took out the money, paid for it, and had very little left. Well, I will tell you something: when I got back to the parking lot and returned to my church, I met an American brother, as it happens, who did not speak any Spanish. But if my miracle is in English, I do not care, because I am going to speak it to you.

Can you give the Lord a round of applause? I am going to speak it to you. I am going to speak it to you. Oh, brothers and sisters, let me tell you what happened. “Bless you, Pastor.” I said, “Bless you, brother.” “How do you feel?” I said, “Fine.” “Your family?” “My family is fine too.” No, of course, glory to God; we were speaking refined English. He was going to understand me, and I was going to understand him. The point is that we struck up a conversation and everything was lovely, but suddenly I heard him say something like, “What are the church’s plans?” I will not say it in English so as not to confuse you. Then he said, “What are the church’s plans? Because I would like to see whether I can give an offering.” When I heard the word “offering,” I immediately called a young woman and quickly looked for someone who knew a little more than I did, because my English, as you know, comes from England, while he was American.

Well then, I quickly called someone, and she came right away and began saying a few words to him. I told her, “Tell him that the plans are going well and that we have good plans.” We talked for a while, and he asked me, “Can you wait while I go get the offering?” My head immediately spun around, and I said, “But that is what Gideon said to God, and God told him, ‘I will wait for you here.’ So who am I not to wait for this man?”

Give the Lord a great round of applause. Give the Lord a great round of applause. Do you understand me? Do you comprehend what I am saying?

But I am going to tell you something so that we can bring this to a good close, because my time has already run out—at least my allotted time. Let me tell you that the brother immediately left, then came back and handed me an envelope. Like a good pastor, I took hold of the envelope like this. Do you know what happened? The testimony is right here. The word I am about to release to you is right here.

Do you know how much was in the envelope? 10,000 American dollars. Okay. Look, what pleases me about all this is the testimony. I had spent 10,000 Dominican pesos, and it is not that I look down on that money of mine. It is a matter of exchange. The point is this: when I went and gave 10, do you know how much they gave me? 10,000 dollars. But brothers and sisters, you are going to believe what happened next: the word of the Lord came to me like a bolt of lightning and said, “When you release what belongs to someone else, I am going to release what belongs to you.”

You can give Him that applause. If you have understood me… I am about to finish, but if you have understood me, what I am telling you is that many blessings are being held back by my attitude.

On Wednesday I spoke to you about how many blessings are being held back because there is a heavenly realm opposing my blessing. But I also oppose it myself, because obedience has to be based on what God has established. And do you know what happens? Many times, the miracle someone is asking to receive is in your house. Many blessings come from heaven, but do you know what? Many come from your house, because if I see someone in my church who needs shoes, and I have ten pairs of shoes, a prayer is unnecessary.

Father, in the name of Jesus, open the doors of heaven and send them a little pair of shoes. Listen, my dear, if I were God, I would tell you even more plainly: Listen, my friend, you have ten pairs; give them one. What I am saying is that many times I am holding back what God has for someone else; when I release it, God will release what belongs to you. If you want God to release it, release yours.

Blessed be the Lord. Let me just read this to you, and then I am finished. Look, brothers and sisters, the third key I am leaving with you—and with this I am going to finish—is action: take action. The third key: take action. Do something. Dare to do it. I am going to tell you this: for years, we in the churches have trained preachers, but a preacher is one thing, and a doer of the Word is another. The preacher will preach very well, and in fact today we have so many good preachers—people who know how to preach, people who preach spectacularly. They preach so well that the Holy Spirit says, “There is not much for Me to do there.” Why? They do so many things, and today I walk around and see so many preachers, but God is looking for doers of His Word.

So with this key, I am going to leave you with just this and then step aside. The third key I am going to leave you is action: do something; dare to do it. I remember once reading in a book that two fishermen got lost on the high seas, and suddenly there they were, lost out at sea. Then a storm began to batter them, and one of the fishermen said to the other, “What do we do? Do we pray or do we row?” And the other answered, “Let us pray and row.” Because some people pray but do not row, and some people row but do not pray. God is looking for people who can pray and row at the same time. So, more than mere prayer, the word would be “pray-action.”

Dare to do it. Do it. Take heart, make the effort, and do it. If you can, give the Lord applause and stand to your feet at this time.

God is looking for men and women who bring change. God is looking for people capable of transforming their surroundings; everything that exists is the result of what was believed. Everything we are seeing had to be believed by someone first. Before a jet flew in space, it flew in someone’s mind.

If you have no intention of taking action, then do not pray either, because God does not answer prayers; God answers faith. Every religion has prayers, and there are religions that pray more than we do. There are religions whose members pray three times a day without fail, and if the time for prayer comes while they are in some random place, they will pray anyway.

So God is looking for people of faith. In the Dominican Republic, we believed that God could change an entire environment, and many people will not understand at first. But it is a good thing that God is like that; sometimes we do not understand God.

I am going to give you a key, and you can take it with you: the less you understand God, the closer you are getting to Him, because the closer you get, the less you understand. Raise your hand toward heaven.

Raise those holy hands toward heaven. Hallelujah! There is something you are dreaming about today, but there is also something you may be getting used to. Today, every situation that causes harm in your life is broken; it is broken today. And I declare times of blessing, times of glory. I declare times in which you are going to receive God’s very best. I declare that this is the time you had dreamed of and waited for.

Raise your little hands toward heaven. Do not leave without declaring this. Say after me: Lord Jesus, this morning I declare that the supernatural opens up so that I may take what belongs to me. Say: Today I declare change and transformation in my life. Say: Today I declare that I join myself to the right people. Blessed be the Lord. Today I declare that heaven turns in my favor, in the name of Jesus.

Amen and amen. It happens today.